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This House is Full of Music

Episode number: 1

Overview: Remote cameras capture a lockdown concert performed by the Kanneh-Mason family from their home in Nottingham, with interviews with the seven musically gifted siblings.

Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me

Episode number: 2

Overview: Following the publication of his new memoir My Name Is Why, writer Lemn Sissay tells Alan Yentob what it was like to grow up as the only black child in a sleepy market town outside Wigan in the 1970s.

Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes

Episode number: 3

Overview: Alan Yentob meets choreographer and director Kate Prince as her ZooNation dance company embarks on a new West End production, Message in a Bottle.

My Name Is Kwame

Episode number: 4

Overview: As the Young Vic celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, Alan Yentob meets its current artistic director, playwright and actor, Kwame Kwei-Armah, to discuss his life and career.

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

Episode number: 5

Overview: Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to her birthplace in Belgrade and talks about turning her life into art.

Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black

Episode number: 6

Overview: Alan Yentob meets Lenny Henry as he publishes a first volume of autobiography, charting his early years in show business.